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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková +4 more
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Sub-regional efforts to achieve gender equality in land ownership
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial SciencesContext and background A typical character of land tenure or property systems in sub-Saharan Africa is that the systems exclude women (implicitly and explicitly) (Chigbu, 2019).
Marcel Loyd MINKA
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, 1986 In the last few years the animal rights movement has grown out of all recognition.
Mills, S, Williams, P
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70 Years of Human Rights in Global Health: Drawing on a Contentious Past to Secure a Hopeful Future [PDF]
, 2018 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted on Dec 10, 1948, established a modern human rights foundation that has become a cornerstone of global health, central to public health policies, programmes, and practices.
Ghebreyesus, Tedros A. +4 more
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Political Economy of Right-to-Farm [PDF]
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 1999 AbstractThis paper investigates the motivations for local right-to-farm protection ordinances by estimating a logit model relating the adoption of these ordinances to various political, economic and demographic factors previously found to affect the likelihood of passage of farmland preservation policies.
Adelaja, Adesoji O., Friedman, Keith
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Temperature Sensitivity and Adaptation of Cereal Yields: Empirical Evidence From Italy
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the evolving temperature sensitivity and climate adaptation of cereal yields in Italy from 1952 to 2023, using province‐level data for maize, common wheat, and durum wheat. Employing panel data econometric methods, we estimate yield responses to heat exposure, changes in sensitivity over time, and adaptation to climate ...
Paolo Nota +2 more
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Brief of Corporate Law Professors as Amici Curie in Support of Respondents [PDF]
, 2015 The Supreme Court has looked to the rights of corporate shareholders in determining the rights of union members and non-members to control political spending, and vice versa.
Bebchuk, Lucian A. +18 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We link American Community Survey and SNAP records for 185,000 units with ground‐sourced social food infrastructure data from FindFoodIL (Illinois Extension SNAP‐Ed) to examine SNAP participation determinants among eligible units. Bivariate probit models reveal, beyond SNAP offices, quantity of social infrastructure is associated with ...
Michael Lotspeich‐Yadao +3 more
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DISFRANCHISEMENT OF NON-NATIONALS: FOR A NEW INTERPRETATION OF THE UDHR AND THE ICCPR
Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2012 This article affirms that political rights are universal rights and that the disfranchisement of non-nationals violates human rights. Based on conventions and recommendations signed by dozens of States, it calls for a new interpretation of articles 21 ...
Danilo Valdir Vieira Rossi
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Federal Enforcement of Civil Rights During the First Reconstruction [PDF]
, 1995 This essay recounts the heroic efforts of federal legal officers and judges to enforce citizens\u27 rights during the 1870s. Part I sets forth the historical events giving rise to the enforcement effort of the Grant Administration.
Kaczorowski, Robert J.
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